About this issue
This volume offers a collection of largely untold stories that together demonstrate women’s pivotal agency in the consumption and production of energy within the home, as well as their engagement with and responses to energy transitions. Perspectives emphasising women’s changing energy-related identities, behaviours, and experiences in many different contexts are accompanied by careful investigations into the factors influencing women’s decision-making with respect to new energy products. The authors not only provide a basis for the reframing of energy histories but also call for the application of these key perspectives in driving more attuned research, and for forcing change on how energy types and transitions are considered and managed in the future.
How to cite: Harrison Moore, Abigail, and Ruth Sandwell, eds. “Women and Energy,” RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2020, no. 1. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9049.
Content
Foreword by Katie Ritson
Editor’s Introduction by Abigail Harrison Moore and Ruth Sandwell
- Gender and Agency in the Anthropocene: Energy, Women, and the Home in Twentieth-Century Britain By Vanessa Taylor
- Rethinking the Agency of Women in Energy Management: Early British Debates on Electrification By Graeme Gooday
- Switching from the Master to the Mistress: A Women’s Guide to Powering Up the Home By Abigail Harrison Moore
- Illuminating Women: The Case of Candles in the English Home, 1815–1900 By Karen Sayer
- Fear and Anxiety on the Energy Frontier: Understanding Women’s Early Encounters with Fossil Fuels in the Home By Ruth Sandwell
- Our Own Memories: Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification By Sorcha O’Brien
- Women and Energy in the Ruhr Area of West Germany, 1950s–1980s By Petra Dolata
- Transitions in the Niger Delta: Oil, Poverty, and Environmental Degradation By Maryse Helbert
